Farmers Slang & Its Analogues. 18901909, rev. 2022.
Pill-pate
subs. (old).A friar; a shaveling.
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d. 1567. T. BECON, The Catechism with Other Pieces (1844), 315. These smeared PILL-PATES, I would say, prelates, first of all accused him, and afterward pronounced the sentence of death upon him.